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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   It’s just the boneheaded American Consumer that has been brainwashed into believing that they HAVE to have the latest, newest, and coolest Gizmo for Christmas, not remembering 6 months ago when they bought the earlier version of the EXACT SAME GIZMO!
   Mammon is the newest “God” that WAY too many are worshiping nowadays!
   What’s next, the “First Church Of Wal-Mart”??
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   AND, how many actually remember that THAT was the original usage of the term “Black Friday”?
   The day of the Crucifixion!
   It went from one of the holiest days in several Religions, to a day of unbridled greed, and consumerism!
   Sad…
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

   @masterskrain

   Most of us stay home. George Carlin brilliantly said about our consumerism, You don’t own your F$#!, it owns you! Caring for that lovely big boat will be the death of you, the ATV’s you play on are likely to cripple you or your children! You have to have a bigger home to hold all your crap, then you retire and give all that extra crap to your kids, who only want new crap, not the old crap. Sheesh!
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

   Want a carefree summer? Bury you lawn in gravel, and xeroscape. Give away the mower,trimmer,gas-can,fertilizer,and weed controller.
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   lonecat said, 6 months ago

   @ahab

   We went to ground cover and bushes and day lilies, and such. You don’t have to mow it, but it’s a lot prettier than gravel.
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   pcolli said, 6 months ago

   @masterskrain

   Everything must go……..and then reappear on Ebay.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago

   I believe this is some form of primitive mass-hysteria, like the crowds at football-games, or armies, or gangs. Everybody goes because everybody else is going, and if you don’t go you’re a square. Psychology 101, in my book…
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   pcolli said, 6 months ago

   @pcolli

   I hate the way that the UK is beginning to echo the US. No offence to the US but we are a different country and all you think of us is “pip-pip, cheerio, Cor blimey, Mary Poppins”.
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   @pcolli

   Actually was in Harrods a couple of days before Christmas some years ago, and some of those housewives there could give some U.S. Football Players lessons in Blocking, Tackling, and Guarding the Blender!
   Sheesh! Swinging those 10 Kilo handbags…DUCK!!
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    Pequod77 said, 6 months ago

    Silent in the onslaught of holiday advertising manipulating consumers to buy what they don’t need and replace what is not worn out is the destruction of the planet. Too much is never enough and, as Danziger makes clear, important messages are lost in the rush to grasp at the gaudy trinket.
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    omQ R said, 6 months ago

    @pcolli

    The company I work for has one of those “special discount for employee” deals so we sometimes get promo emails (not considered spam by our filters :p ). I was surprised to read “Black Friday” deals on-line. It then listed several American branded companies, Apple, Dell, HP and a few others but also followed by local subsidiaries, like Amazon.co.uk and even British companies like Virgin, Vodaphone & Lastminute. An American sales day is becoming an international one by virtue of the on-line stores.
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    sbeavin said, 6 months ago

    I don’t buy into the consumerism either but what in the hell has a crucifix got to do with Thanksgiving?
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    ahab said, 6 months ago

    @lonecat

    Wonderful how common sense works,eh!
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    Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

    Some folks and I went to see a movie after Thanksgiving dinner yesterday…and as we were leaving the mall, people were already lining up at the entrance to Sears.

    This was at 6:00 Pm
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    masterskrain said, 6 months ago

    @sbeavin

    The Original term “Black Friday” was for the day of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
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